Food+and+Drinks

 Food and drinks **The ancient Egypt that was thousands of years ago ate similar food like Today. For example they ate like beef, drank beer and ate soup. The Egyptians that time could only grow a certain kind of food because of the hot weather and they could mostly depend on the Nile. ** **The Egyptians ate food like rice, bread, fish, lamb, turkey, and stuffed vegetables. Tahina is a sesame seed paste. A traditional Egyptian meal would be with fava beans, chicken beans, with tahina and flat Egypt bread named pita bread. The veggies that they had in Egypt that time was onions, leeks, beans, garlic, chick peas, radishes, lentils, papyrus shoots, lotus a (water lily) root, spinach, turnips, carrots, lettuce, squash, cucumber. They also ate fruits like figs, dates, apples, pomegranates, grapes, and watermelons. Egyptian never drank milk; they used milk to only make cheese or to make the runners of the sledges to make it smooth. The children even drank barley beer and not normal milk. A rich kid’s lunch would be with bread with meat or cheese, and then the drink would be beer. A poor kid’s lunch would be normal bread with onion or with brown bean. In Egypt sugar was not used. They used dates, carob (a chocolate flavored), fruits, and honey to make cakes tasty. Beside from beer the Egyptian drank wine; it was made from grapes or from pomegranates or plum. The poor ate unleavened bread, onion, and sometimes fish, they drank beer as a usually drink. The wealthy had lots of food and they had over fifth teen kinds of bread. The Egyptians had no silverware so they had to eat in their hands. The ancient Egyptian ate water birds for meat also, for example stocks, geese, and also ** __**This is an Ancient Egypt recipe for a Dessert Ingredients: 8 ounces of dates honey a few drops of water ground almonds 1 tsp. cinnamon,1/2 tsp. cardamon How to make it: 1. Blend the dates into a paste(You can use a blender for this. Ancient Egyptians would have done this by had.) 2. Put the paste into a bowl. Add the water, cinnamon, and cardamon. Mix well. 3. Shape the mixture into balls 4. Put the honey and almonds into two separate saucers. 5. Roll each ball in the honey and then in the nuts. 6. Enjoy!  ** __   Ancient Egypt barley that they used most of the time to make beer.

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